conceptual art

Work in Progress for "Bookish" at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery

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Here is a preview of some of a new version of my Found Bookmark Project which I am working on for an exhibition called Bookish at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork. I searched the library at the University and collected a lot of material that had been left behind between the pages of books. I found some interesting stuff including a letter dated 1979 with a note added by another library user in 1983. The letter is a complaint about vandalism of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy and library security in general.

Here are some scans of objects:

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Idris Kahn

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Every… Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable Sided Houses, 2004 and Every… Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical Type Gasholders, 2004 © Idris Khan

Idris Khan is an artist who makes images by layering multiple photograpghs. Here he is using photos by the Bechers. He will be participating in PROJECT bodycity in Dublin's Docklands.

An Exhibition in Five Chapters

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In the small library of the Info Lab in the CAC DeBuitlear presents The Found Bookmark Collection Vilnius. The piece consists of objects left between the pages of books in libraries in Vilnius. He visited libraries throughout the city collecting several hundred objects including receipts, 40-year-old envelopes, hair-pins and a love letter addressed to “my dear cabbage”. On view in the CAC is a selection from this collection, each item containing its own personal story.

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2 Projects by Jochem Hendricks

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*THE IMAGES FROM THIS POST HAVE BEEN TEMPORARILY LOST DUE TO A CHANGE IN SERVER - THEY WILL BE REPLACED SOON *

 

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Viruses, ping pong balls, glue

"In 1991 Jochem Hendricks began to build makromodels of viralstructures, e.g. aids, cancer, flue, or herpes. When exhibited, these structures are hung from the ceiling and are dispersed throughout the room like a planetarysystem. This body of works encompasses 15 objects. Each made up of between 60 and 752 ping-pong balls, glued together according to elaborately calculated blueprints. "  

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Newspaper, rotary print 

"This newspaper has already been read. The movements of the eyes while reading were recorded, digitized and printed out. Something of the otherwise invisible process of reading is made visible, and a trace of the absorbtion of information remains. The result being a read newspaper, a finished paper so to speak, an entire «Frankfurter Allgemeine». The printing of the paper was done along with the usual daily issue of the «Frankfurter Allgemeine», in an identical printing process on rotating presses. Kindly supported by the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung GmbH, the Frankfurt Societätsdruckerei Gmbh and the Ministry for Art and Science in Hessen."

http://www.jochem-hendricks.de/englisch/non_index.htm